What We Do

Fix Films features the work of Kerthy Fix and an amazing team, including Paul Kloss, cinematographer. Our work focuses on music, creativity, innovation and the role of artists in culture. 

We are problem solvers who love to collaborate because the best answers come through the alchemy of different viewpoints. We work organically to let the stories and people shine. With every project, we work closely with our subjects to achieve a special kind of intimacy, highlighting the iconoclasts, mutineers and trailblazers who change things for the better. 

We’ve worked in every style of production (except maybe porn) and continue to produce, direct, shoot and edit for non-fiction and fiction projects.

Films

 

Ten years in the making, STRANGE POWERS is an intimate documentary portrait of songwriter Stephin Merritt and his band the Magnetic Fields. 

With his unique gift for memorable melodies, lovelorn lyrics and wry musical stylings that blend classic Tin Pan Alley with modern sounds, Stephin Merritt has distinguished himself as one of contemporary pop’s most beloved and influential artists. Both a prolific recording artist and composer of theater and film scores, he performs most famously as the Magnetic Fields, whose 1999 three-disc opus 69 Love Songs is widely considered a masterpiece of traditional song craft and irresistible synth-pop. 

Strange Powers explores Merritt’s songwriting and recording process, and focuses on his relationships with his bandmates and his longtime manager, Claudia Gonson, revealing an artist who has produced one of the most engaging and confounding bodies of work in the contemporary American songbook. 

Directors: Kerthy Fix and Gail O’Hara

Camera: Kerthy Fix and Paul Kloss

Editor: Sarah Devorkin

WHO TOOK THE BOMP? LE TIGRE ON TOUR follows iconic feminist, electronic band Le Tigre on their 2004-2005 international tour across four continents and through ten countries. 

Supported by a community of devoted fans and led by outspoken Riot Grrrl pioneer Kathleen Hanna (Bikini Kill), Le Tigre confronts sexism and homophobia in the music industry while tearing up the stage in this edgy and entertaining documentary. With a punk rock ethos and whip-smart wit, Hanna and fellow band members, JD Samson and Johanna Fateman, changed the landscape for female, queer and trans musicians - blurring the lines of gender with performance art poetics and no-holds-barred lyrics. WHO TOOK THE BOMP? features never-before-seen live performances, archival interviews, and revealing backstage footage with these three trail-blazing artists.

Director: Kerthy Fix

Editors: Paul Kloss and Sarah Devorkin